Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and scores more jazz composers and performers stride through this colorful volume, as it summarizes America's greatest contribution to the world's music. Chronicled here are the origins of jazz in turn-of-the-century southern black communities. Also covered are jazz's transition to Broadway in the hands of George Gershwin; jazz at Carnegie Hall in the persons of Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, and Gene Krupa; pioneers of bebop, including Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie; and the great jazz vocalists, including Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, and Sarah Vaughan. This volume takes jazz to the present day, showing the synthesis of jazz and electronic music and citing today's best instrumentalists, including Wynton Marsalis and Don Byron.
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Jazz and Its History
Jazz in its variety of forms first came out of America's nineteenth century black communities, and began assuming its identity in New Orleans and other cities along the Mississippi River. This beautifully illustrated volume traces the history and development of jazz through its great instrumentalists and singers. Readers also discover how jazz forms came to influence and merge with Broadway show music, the swing bands of the 1930s and '40s, the rock-and-roll of the 1950s and later, and the electronic music of today.
Jazz and Its Immortal Performers
This book explores the world of jazz in words and full-color illustrations. Detailed and labeled illustrated spreads show and explain the variety of instruments played by jazz artists. Individual sections focus on many of jazz's greatest performers, including Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Count Bassie, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk, and many others.
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